Ebook: Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

The same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both humans and animals. By acknowledging this shared programming, the human experience no longer seems unique, but in that loss we gain a fuller understanding, helping us lead more grounded, moral lives among animals, our closest kin. Through a mix of colorful reporting and rigorous research, Lents describes the strides scientists have made in decoding animal behavior to drive home the truth that we are distinguished from animals only in degree, not in kind.

The biologist Nathan H. Lents shows that humans and animals are not as different as once believed: the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both human and animal behavior. He describes the strides scientists have made in decoding animal behavior to explain that we are distinguished only in degree, not in kind.